Youth Homelessness and Social Stigma |
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Authors: | Sean A Kidd |
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Institution: | (1) Yale Program on Recovery and Community Health, Centre for Mountain Health Services, Mental Health Rehabilitation, 100 West 5th St., Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 3K7, Canada |
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Abstract: | Building upon previous exploratory qualitative research (Kidd SA (2003) Child Adol Social Work J 20(4):235–261), this paper
examines the mental health implications of social stigma as it is experienced by homeless youth. Surveys conducted with 208
youths on the streets and in agencies in New York City and Toronto revealed significant associations between perceived stigma
due to homeless status and sexual orientation, pan handling and sex trade involvement, and amount of time homeless. Higher
perceived stigma was also related to low self esteem, loneliness, feeling trapped, and suicidal ideation, with guilt/self-blame
due to homeless status having the strongest impact on mental health variables.
Sean Kidd is an assistant professor with the McMaster Department of Psychiary and Behavioural Neurociences. He received his
Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Windsor, Ontario, in 2003. His primary research areas are suicide and
resiliency among homeless youth and the application of qualitative methodologies in psychological research. |
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Keywords: | Youth homelessness Street youth Social stigma Suicidality |
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